Gallup and McKinley County are Open for Business!

Gallup, New Mexico and McKinley County are empowered for business, offering a strategic location for critical industries, outstanding transportation assets, population diversity, economic development support, and workforce development programs.

Empowered for Business

  • Gallup has a stable, growing power infrastructure
  • Multiple electric service providers committed to strengthening the transmission system and responding to emerging technology
  • Emerging solar fields and renewable energy
  • $1 billion Federal Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project that guarantees water accessibility from the San Juan River
  • Expansion of natural gas pipelines by the New Mexico Gas Company
  • Small modular reactors (SMRs) and data centers

Economic Development Support

  • Companies receive extensive support from the Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation, a robust organization that works cooperatively with private sector businesses looking to relocate
  • Gallup offers unique incentives and initiatives not found in other cities
  • Local Economic Development Act / LEDA ordinance leverages State funds, as well as Federal dollars to provide opportunities for companies move to Gallup with little start-up costs

Dedicated Workforce

  • Population nearing 75,000 residents, with a labor force more than 26,000 workers/projected to grow
  • Customizable workforce training programs available at Gallup/McKinley County schools, the University of New Mexico-Gallup, and the Southwest Indian Foundation

Green Gallup Initiative

GLP is working alongside the county and state to make New Mexico a leader in net zero Carbon manufacturing

  • Leading the southwest into the future of net zero working and living by using low carbon energy innovation, including solar, electric charging e-fuels research and development, and wind- hydrogen
  • Developers, operators, and owners of clean energy assets have contracted with GLP for utility-scale solar farms
  • Empowering Green manufacturing, electric transportation, zero carbon residential developments
  • Enabling New Mexico’s zero carbon transition